After playing with my hacked iPhone for a while, I have decided to tell you guys exactly why I did it and why someone might not want to do it.
The Reasons Why I Did It:
The Reasons Why You May Not Want To Do It:
- Jailbreaking breaks your warranty. If you damage your iPhone, Apple won’t fix it. Some of my friends have damaged their jailed iPhones and gotten full replacements! This is not a possibility for someone with a jailbroken iPhone. Apple will just say, “The reason it’s not working is because you hacked it.” Hacking your iPhone is not sanctioned by Apple, so whatever you do is at your own risk.
- There’s always a possibility of something bad happening. Even Zibri says, “ZiPhone has worked reliably for many iPhone users, but occasionally things do go
wrong.” If this happens, you could be left with a iPhone that is unable to restore. This happens because something in your iPhone so so corrupt that either iTunes cannot read your it or pressing restore just won’t work. Also, you have to be really careful when new firmware comes out. If you upgrade… It’s dead. - The apps are not that great A majority of the iPhone apps on installer are absolute pointless. Also, people make a lot of apps just to prove the point that it is possible, but actually do nothing helpful for the user. I have two examples. I downloaded this one apps called cowbell… You tap on it and it makes a cowbell noise, this is self explanatory. There is also an app that lets your record videos, but only 5 seconds long. Then, the only way to get it onto your computer it to SSH into your iPhone. Trust me there are a lot more apps that do nothing helpful than apps that cool or help you get things done.
- Your iPhone works fine as it is. You love your iPhone and it already does everything you want it to. You just have to live for 4 months, knowing it can do so much more. It’s a great iPod, a great phone and a great internet communicator. Why should you jeopardize that?
- The iPhone SDK looks amazing, and it’s coming in 4 months. We already saw the power of what companies could do in 2 weeks with the SDK. There is nothing like those apps in installer. No Touch Fighter, no Super Mokey Ball, no Spore. Come June, you will have all of that. It’s worth the wait.
If you are considering jailbreaking your iPhone, you have to realize that it is a stressful process. I was really scared when I was doing it and even though it ended up fine, I was still scared I was hurting it somehow. If your still not really sure if you want to do it or not, I would read over the list and see which ones you agree with more. If you agree with 3 about not jailbreaking and 2 about jailbreaking, don’t jailbreak. Even though I love my hacked iPhone and I think it’s an easy process, I have to suggest not doing it. This is because it is the safe thing to do and I don’t want to be responsible if something goes wrong.
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
If I had an iPod Touch or iPhone, I don’t think I would jailbreak it. I’ve played some of the games and messed around with some of the apps and they’re just not that great. If I were to get one, I would get the iPod Touch upgrade that they just released not that long ago and wait until 2.0. The only reason I would even think about jailbreaking it is for the IM capabilities.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
@Kevin S
I though the same thing as you do for a really long time. There was no reason to do it, and you might as well just wait. If you had an iPod touch… you would probably get bored of it knowing that you could jailbreak it any time. Thats what happened to me and thats why I did it.
I understand that this topic probably doesn’t interest you much so, I will only do 1 or 2 more posts about it.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I jailbroke my iPod touch, and after that itsbattery only lasted half an hour and my mom can’t find the papers for it so I cant get it replaced and it’s useless, I used ziphone for thisbecause I didn’t have wifi. And nw I’m too scared to jailbreak my iphoneand it looks great and all but I can’t stand the thought of it breaking I paid alot of money in my country for it..Lease e mail me and tell me what problems could happen if I did jailbreakmy iPhone and please give me easins why I should and give your own opinion, my e mail address is zee94226@yahoo.com